₦airaland Forum

SirShymexx:
Lol, why're you always doing this? Not everything must be "Us" vs. "Them". People should be allowed to express themselves freely when certain things aren't just right.

This king started well, but like a typical nyggah, he decided to overdo everything. From making a who.re a housewife, to the endless unnecessary visits to all kinds of people thus reducing the prestige of the stool of his forebears in the process. Heck, I saw a picture of him visiting Obafemi Martins last week. What type of king is that, especially a prominent Yoruba king? Have you ever seen the Queen visit David Beckham?

Now this noisy and inconsequential adventure to New York city with lousy claims about New York declaring Yoruba day and Obama honouring him. If New York cared about his visit, they would've given him the same treatment the British Royal family get every time they visit Virginia. Also, we all know how Obama welcomes Gulf royals whenever they visit America. And I know darn well he's not out there to promote Yoruba culture - he just went there as one of his unnecessary owanbe wandering. If he actually cared about promoting Yoruba culture - he would've visited Oyotunji and graced the Odunde festival in Philly. No he didn't do none of that - he went to the UN headquarters as a tourist. The man just stays disgracing Yorubas everywhere cos he can't sit his arse down on his throne.

If he's interested in politics and celebrity status - he should vacate the throne for someone who can be a proper king. This is just too much right now.

I don't support nonsense...same way I don't support the politics of servitude to Booharry and Fulani some of these clowns on here thrive in.

You mean this Odunde festival he is attending TOMMORROW? .


Dudes are mad at him for an event that hasn't even started!!

Now that he is going there and it fits your criteria, what will you choose to be mad at this time?

princey83:
The question should be why do our royals not get the respect they deserve when they visit foreign countries. They got these respect some 50-60 years ago . what has changed?
And no one cares where you were raised. is that some sort of bragging rights?
shymex was born and raised in a developed country. a proper Yoruba boy, and he has a different opinion too.

Nah. You assumed he wasn't and are still on it. You're not even here and know what he's not getting....even to believing he didn't have a police escort.

The arrogance is incredible, number 1. You're in no position to even know what he's being or not being given...but you just "know" in your gut that it's a lack of respect.

I love my people, man. We stay looking at the glass half empty before its even filled with water

princey83:
I didn't see that in the video though.

he had a police escort and will have one again when he comes to Brooklyn on Monday. Either way, why do people like yourself use Europeans as the standard? Why do you always give white people and their behavior sainthood?

Who cares what European monarchs do. This is why sometimes I'm glad I was raised in the United States. Too many Nigerians have a colonialist mind state worshiping everything the European Masters do.

Ogurube:
You shouldn't vouch for anything about his visit being offici@l or recognized by non-Nigerians, be it in NJ, NY, PA, or WDC. None of the mayors know him or care much about a village head from a backward and depraved country as ours. It's OK if he's there to hangout with his village subjects during cultural events in the aforementioned states, but don't use it as a conduit to tap into the American infuence to elevate his position. That won't flow well with the well-rounded ones. Go spew your drives elsewhere.

You do know there's an order of protocol before meeting with officials, right? You do know someone representing Ooni has to reach out to officials first letting them know of his arrival, right? You do know that we didn't bother reaching out to half of the DeBlasio and other official types you're giving white sainthood to, right? You do know that the bulk of this trip is to forge economic and cultural relationships to the benefit of Ife, right?

Again...thank you for being the spokesman on mayors you've never met before and what they care about.

Again....thank you for Knowing that this is about elevating his position when I personally know In meeting him(yes...I'm talking about someone I actually met while you are.......?) that he's drained by all of the celebrations. Dude said "another celebration" and rolled his eyes because he's tired of it. His interest is in building relationships. That's why he's going to obscure MoCADA, not the Met or the Natiral Museum of History....the big boys full of our antiquities which would raise his profile.

Another salty ass Nigerian who thinks the worst of things because their arrogance doesn't allow him to say "hmmmmm....I didn't know that" opting to say "I didn't like this dude before this trip, so I'm gonna hate about it."

Just salty for nothing.

Ogurube:
I'm a sensible Nigerian that can read between the lines and think critically to catch a red herring. This news is fraught with garbage and distracting embellishments; it's lauģhable that some of us got gullibly over-stimulated by a costumed royal minion who goes to America, just like anybody with money and a shallow crowd of praise singers. Rather than get tribally empowered to bash others, have you asked the cerebral and neutral questions that can make you seem enlightened: If the Ooni or Obi or Emir were so important and recognized in America, won't they be officially received by the mayor, like Bill De Blasio of New York himself, over red carpet and treated to a stately welcome at the City Hall. More so, the reputable media, screen and print alike, would be all over it. I'm yet to see a headline in the papers or TV that herald the "Coming to America" of the King of Zamunda (oops...Ooni of Ife) and his speculated visit to the White House to see Obama and get an award. For what is the award given? What value does the visit offer the US? My knowledge of how Nigerians can form a posse to forcefully hype and elevate one of their clan chiefs or king, methinks the indigenes and supporters are desperately behind this - going about putting up banners and forcing him and his culture on the American people, just to have bragging power. Please, let's not celebrate primitive and pretentious lifestyles, rather let the focus be om things that matter, of superlative quality - light, roads, schools, police force, healthcare, sanitation, and city planning.

Thank you for being the spokesman for Americans.

And thank you for speaking for Mayor DeBlasio's office when the Ooni's time was never about being here in the city. It was arranged for him to be in Newark where he met the Mayor there. His time in the city was to be at the UN, visit the AU before making a stop at the African Burial Grounds which he all did yesterday. DeBlasio doesn't validate who is or isn't worthy.

He'll be back in NYC to speak to the diaspora. Hopefully, he leave here with ties I'm working on which will benefit my parents hometown.

Again...I can't vouch for the White House thing.

but the apples to oranges comparisons....keep it going my dude. You're mad salty for some reason.

While I can't vouch for the Ooni meeting the president, it was my efforts as a Brooklyn born man to an Ife Prince that met with Ooni who didn't know me from Adam back in March. He was completely unaware about my stature in Ife through my dad. But my interest was to bring him to the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn to forge ties with the African diaspora of Trinidadians, Jamaicans, Bajans, African Americans, Puerto Ricans...the African diaspora I grew up around and places where yoruba culture survived stronger than any African culture that was brought through the slave trade. Not only did Ooni meet me in Ife as late as 10pm....10pm in slow ass Ife...willing to meet me in his home as we sat down for over an hour and talked about the return of our Ife antiquities, the slave trade, his willingness to reach out to the diaspora at large. It was as if he was relieved to move beyond the celebrations and talk about our stature in the black world.

And guess what? Three months later, here we are...he'll be at MoCADA, an activist museum speaking on those things.

I can't say enough how proud I am of this monarch. As a person who could have ran to become Ooni, he has my backing.

And for the record, someone brought up the Oyotunji Village in SC. He will be visiting there along with the St. Helen Islands in SC where our culture still exists. So thank you for further verifying that the very thing you believe a real king would do, he actually is doing.

Is refreshing to meet a fellow Yoruba man who values our culture's presence.

Thank you Senator Kevin Parker for the symbolic gesture, legislating that June 13th is Yourba Day. As a Brooklyn head, seeing my two homes join hands is a blessing...

I'm out...